Is X a crude first draft of Iain M. Banks' Culture network?
yunta_tsai · x · 2026-09-14
The author invokes Iain M. Banks' Culture series, where superintelligent Minds and biologicals are fellow citizens bound by a galactic comms web that builds consensus rather than issuing orders.
He argues X (Twitter) increasingly resembles a crude first draft of that: billions of humans and ever-stronger models on one real-time network, hashing out a distributed consensus.
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